LISD board to consider bids for football field improvements

Posted: March 31, 2011 - 2:44pm

BY JOE GULICK

During a specially called meeting Friday, the Lubbock Independent School District board of trustees will consider awards for some of the first competitive bids in bond projects passed by voters in the $198 million bond election in November.The bids will involve improvements at the football fields for Coronado, Lubbock, Monterey and Estacado high schools, according to school board president James Arnold.All four of the fields will be turfed, and some of them will have new tracks, Arnold said. Other improvements will include fencing and curb work, he said.“For some of these, there are (Americans with Disabilities Act) considerations we have to do,” he said.Arnold acknowledged it was unusual to call a special board meeting eight days after the regular monthly meeting — which was on March 24 — but he said it was done for a logical purpose.“The reason we are doing it is we don’t want to get behind on bond projects,” he said. “We need to get back on track with bond items, get them in the system and get them going so they will be ready next fall.”Proposed consolidations of Dunbar and Alderson middle schools, Arnett and Wright elementary schools and Tubbs Elementary School with McWhorter and Wollfarth elementary schools will not be considered by the trustees at the Friday meeting, Arnold said.